- This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.
- This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
- Brand USA is the destination marketing organization for the United States which works closely with the travel industry to maximize the economic and social benefits of travel.
- This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.
- This program is made up of a coalition of partners across the state that share important messaging about preserving and protecting our state’s natural resources.
- This event brings top industry leaders in film, television, and digital media to visit high school and college classrooms across the state.
- This credit enhancement helps small and medium-sized businesses in Colorado access loans that they would otherwise not get because they do not have enough collateral.
- This program provides eligible semiconductor companies access to specific types of Enterprise Zone income tax credits; Colorado municipalities and counties must establish a CHIPS Zone through application to the EDC before companies can access these benefits.
- This program teaches cultural and community leaders how to handle change in organizations, communities, and their daily lives.
- This program helps businesses and tourism partners advertise on Colorado.com by creating free and/or paid articles, business listings, maps, and events.
- This grant finances various projects across the state that create or revitalize mixed-use commercial centers.
- This grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.
- This program certifies communities that contribute to our state’s economy through creativity, culture, and the arts.
- This annual event is for Colorado creatives to connect, learn, and be inspired.
- This credit enhancement is for businesses that typically struggle to get access to a bank loan.
- Participants in the Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor program will receive 70 hours of free consulting support from DarkSky Colorado to implement activities that reduce light pollution and protect access to Colorado’s incredible night skies.
- This toolkit helps your community or business install and promote electric vehicle charging stations along Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways.
- This directory helps our state's film industry workforce showcase their skills and services to producers who are considering filming here.
- This incentive encourages film production in Colorado with a performance-based rebate for up to 20% of qualified expenses.
- This database of filmable locations across Colorado allows filmmakers to search by town, county, and type of location.
- This scholarship helps college and university students attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
- This is an annual three-day event for tourism professionals and industry leaders to learn and network.
- This scholarship helps tourism professionals attend the Governor's Tourism Conference for the first time.
- This position recognizes and supports Colorado musicians whose public service improves Colorado economically, socially, and culturally.
- This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
- This federal program encourages long-term investments in designated low-income communities by giving investors tax incentives for investing in real estate projects.
- The laureate advocates for poetry, literacy, and literature by participating in readings and other events at the state capitol, schools, libraries, and literary festivals.
- This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.
- The Colorado Startup Loan Fund provides loan capital to mission-based lenders to provide loans to Colorado entrepreneurs and small business owners needing capital to start, restart, or restructure a business, and those who are not able to obtain a loan from traditional lenders.
- As a part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the federal government passed the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) bill to fund small business credit support and investment programs.
- This program allows organizations to submit brochures about their business or other travel information to display at Colorado Welcome Centers.
- This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied commercial properties.
- This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.
- This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.
- This program helps Colorado artists by highlighting their work through rotating art exhibitions to the State Capitol building.
- This program places creative arts therapies in the Pikes Peak region for veterans, service members, and their families and caregivers.
- This toolkit offers a variety of crisis communications preparedness and recovery assets for communities and organizations impacted by natural disasters and tourism crisis situations.
- This discounted subscription gives tourism partners access to a visual content marketing software called CrowdRiff.
- This free certification helps frontline workers become Colorado experts and grow their Colorado-style hospitality.
- This tax credit covers up to 50% of a qualified business’ conversion costs to employee ownership (up to $150,000.00). Check the program page to learn more about the recently expanded program.
- This tax credit helps businesses invest in commercial vehicles and parts for vehicles.
- This tax credit encourages businesses in economically distressed communities to offer health insurance coverage to their employees.
- This tax credit encourages enterprise zone businesses to invest in business personal property.
- This tax credit helps businesses develop a skilled workforce in distressed communities.
- This tax credit helps businesses in distressed communities add employees to their workforce.
- This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
- This tax credit helps businesses invest in research and development through a tax credit.
- This tax credit helps businesses redevelop commercial property and rehabilitate vacant buildings.
- This program is eight sessions, each lasting 2.5-3 hours, where a professional filmmaker works with high school teachers to cover scriptwriting, production, filming, and editing.
- This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
- This series of events addresses the need for community engagement and education during COVID-19 by providing webinars to the creative film and media community.
- This grant funds the creation, documentation, presentation, and/or teaching of folk and traditional arts.
- These awards honor community members for civic leadership and volunteerism in creative industries.
- OEDIT is seeking stakeholder input on HB22-1418 Extension Of Certain Unused Tax Credits concerning the extension of the period for which unused and expiring colorado Job Growth Incentive (JGTIC) and Enterprise Zone (EZ) income tax credits may be carried forward to subsequent years.
- These scholarships help high school students pay for educational and experiential film programs.
- This program supports HUBZone-certified small businesses in designated areas of the State by providing them with preferential treatment in awarding federal contracts.
- This program helps address Colorado’s housing shortage by supporting the development and expansion of the state’s innovative housing manufacturing businesses through grants and loans.
- The program helps organizations and tourism businesses advertise to consumers through tour operators in other countries to promote their destinations.
- These trade shows provide an opportunity for destination marketing organizations to join the Colorado booth.
- The Colorado Just Transition Action Plan provides more information on the Just Transition communities themselves, and it provides recommendations on supporting coal transition workers who are or will be laid off by connecting them with job and training opportunities, local, state, and federal resources, quality jobs, and more.
- This grant provides up to 50% of eligible direct support costs, not to exceed $200,000 for hosting events in Colorado that take place on or before June 30, 2024.
- This grant supports an annual workshop that helps motivate and inspire native students who are struggling to find a passion in high school.
- This national competition helps high school students learn about poetry by memorizing and performing it.
- This center provides technical assistance to businesses sell products and services to the federal, state, and local governments.
- The Professional Pathways Program program is a tier based professional networking and development program for film students across the state.
- These partners share expertise with filmmakers and help attract productions to their communities.
- This program helps fund large tourism projects to attract new visitors from out of state after the 2008 Great Recession. This program has awarded all funds.
- This grant and tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
- This scholarship pays for tourism entrepreneurs and small businesses to attend a Small Business Leading Edge Training.
- This scholarship provides up to $500 to help rural tourism professionals learn and improve their skills.
- This event projects short works from Colorado filmmakers onto exterior walls and other city surfaces in Denver's RiNo neighborhood for eight days.
- This program helps communities convert buildings into affordable living and work spaces for creatives.
- This program provides support for initiatives led by nonprofit entities pertaining to key industries or regional development.
- This award honors a frontline tourism worker from each of Colorado’s eight travel regions.
- This grant provides funding to support projects that develop, enhance or better manage visitor experiences.
- This grant provides funding to support tourism marketing and promotional campaigns.
- This program helps Colorado tourism partners maximize their advertising and marketing dollars through group purchasing of media buys.
- The Colorado Tourism Office produces and distributes two print publications called the Official Colorado State Vacation Guide and Love, Colorado magazine.
- These promotions help tourism partners and small businesses take advantage of public relations connections to help them market themselves.
- This program provides funding to eligible applicants to support the economic recovery of the travel and tourism industry in Colorado through the execution of tourism marketing and promotional campaigns.
- This program helps promote content through Visit Colorado's social media pages to help share your destination with residents and visitors.
- The VCA partners with professional fund managers to make seed and early-stage equity investments in Colorado startups to grow Colorado's innovative ecosystem and to create quality job opportunities.
- This program allows your organization to showcase tailored advertising messages on a digital screen within the interior walls of Colorado Welcome Centers.
